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Phones provide a simple and efficient means to conduct work, handle social arrangements and function from day to day---unless you sit and “chitchat” on the phone for hours as some people do. Several times in the course of a work day(or often in the evening as well) you may consult by phone with colleagues, students, lab assistants, secretaries, librarians or others on work-related matters. If you want an appointment with your department head, you would normally call him and arrange a time either with him or through his secretary. If you were unable to keep your appointment (or if you found you had to be late for it) you would phone and change plans. In this way, no one wastes time waiting for someone who isn’t coming, and no one wastes visiting someone who isn’t at home or is already busy with someone or something else. If you wanted to buy a certain tube or chemical or book for your work, you would “let your fingers do the walking”, that is, you would look in the yellow pages (business section) of your phone directory and call ahead to make sure the store has t you need, and at a good price. If it’s an expensive item, you might call several stores to compare prices. And if they have to order something special for you, you might ask them to call you when it comes in. so much time saved! In small places, like college towns, you might drop in on friends informally. But in big cities you never just show up at someone’s house (even a relative’s) without calling first. We arrange not only our work schedules very carefully, but our off-work time as well. Look up someone’s phone in the white pages (home phones) of your directory, then call. The response may be: “Great. We’d love to see you. Come on over.” Or, the response may be: “I’m really busy tonight. How about tomorrow night at 9:30?” Time is precious; even our language shows that we treat time like a commodity to be “spent”, “saved” or “wasted”---people are generally annoyed with themselves or others when they have “wasted” their time. And in daily life, too, your phone saves time and money. If you want to go to a film, you might call to see what’s playing, ask the time schedule and check the prices; if you want to take a train, bus or plane, you can call to find out schedules, prices and ticketing information, and to make a reservation if you want to shop for clothes after work, you might call to ask how late the store is open before you travel all the way downtown. Phones are easily accessible: you’ll find home phones, office phones, and pay (or public) phones in which you deposit coins to make a call. Today, people also have automatic answering services: if they are not at home or in the office (or don’t wish to be disturbed) they switch on a machine which will answer your call. A pre-recorded message will say to: “I’m sorry, so-and-so is not in at the moment. At the tone, please leave your name and number and he/she will call you back as soon as possible.” Don’t get flustered when you hear the “beep”. It’s more efficient to leave your name and number than to waste your time calling again and again